Coupling-bar for wire-fence rails



(No Model.)

TI B. TOLLEFSON.

COUPLING BAR FOR WIRE FENCE RAILS. No. 438,205. Patented Oct. 14, 1890.

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Ivan??- I. Z M fit V UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

THOMAS E. TOLLEFSON, OF BROl/VNTOWN, \VISCONSIN.

COUPLING-BAR FOR WIRE-FENCE RAILS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N 0. 438,205, dated October14, 1890.

Application filed July 8, 1890- Serial No. 358,047- (No model.)

a citizen of the United States, residing at Browntown, in the county ofGreen and State of Wisconsin,have invented certain new and usefulImprovements in Coupling-Bars for Wire-Fence Rails; and I do herebydeclare the following to be a full, clear, and exact de scription of theinvention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which itappertains to make and use the same.

The special object of the invention is to makeagateway or place whichmaybe opened in wire fences for the passage of a wagon or of farmanimals, by means ofthe couplingbar hereinafter described.

Figure l of the drawings is a side view of my coupling-bar; Fig. 2, aside elevation showing its application to the wire rail.

In the drawings, A represents my couplingbar, which is turned up at theends to form the arms a a, and on the inside edge is provided with theinclined notches o The end of the arm a is curved outwardly in the planeof the bar to form the hook a while the end of the arm a is turnedlaterally, or at an angle to the plane of the bar to form the hook a Brepresents the wire rail of a barbed-wire fence; but of course thedevice is equally adapted for use with any sort of wire rail.

One end of the cut wire is formed with a small 100p b, which engageswith the hook a while the transverse hook a hangs on the inch bythree-sixteenths.

wire at b. The other end of the wire is made with a comparatively largeloop 19 which passes over the arm a and is caught in that one of thenotches a which is best calculated to render the wire taut. Of courseone of these coupling-bars is to be employed with each rail of a panel.

By the use of this coupling-bar the most convenient place in a wirefence may be always chosen so as to put horses in and take them out of apasture, or for the purpose of of hauling to and from a field. Ipreferably make the bar about one foot long, the hookarm a about two andone-half inches, and the hook-arm a about two inches, while I make themain body of the bar seven-eighths of an 7 The first notch a, is aboutthree inches from arm a, the notches themselves being about an inchapart.

What I claim as new is The bar A, having the arms a a, inside THOMAS B.TOLLEFSON.

Witnesses:

J NO. LUOHSINGER, J. H. ROHRBECK.

